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VICTORY IN SACRAMENTO ON APRIL 18, 2007
We had a very successful trip to Sacramento on April 18, 2007! Assembly Bill 576 was presented before the Committee and has been successfully approved 9-3! We would like give a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came out to support Allensworth! The busses came from Los Angeles and Oakland and we look forward to seeing everyone who supported us to come on our next bus ride to Sacramento and this time, bring a friend or two!! We've put together some photo's from the trip and we hope to see your smiling face in future pictures!
What's are the next steps, you ask? The Bill will be presented before the Assembly Floor and all Assemblymembers. We will still need to continue with our Letters of Support to the Assemblymembers (you will be able to access their email and mailing addresses via the website), once it is presented and passes the Assembly, then it will be presented to the Senate in the Fall of 2007! Once AB 576 is presented and passes the Senate, let the celebrations begin!!!
So stay tuned to the website, http://www.allensworthpals.org/ and Allensworth Buzz for the latest updates!! Let's all keep the faith for Allensworth!!
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Felicia - Allensworth PALS
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From Preservation Online, the online magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
www.preservationonline.org
Dairy Farmer Backs Off California State Park
Story by Margaret Foster / Sept. 17, 2007
A California state park will remain stench-free for now, thanks to a deal between the state and a farmer who planned a 12,000-head dairy farm near Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, a town African Americans founded a century ago.
The state agreed on Sept. 11 to pay Samuel Etchegaray $3.5 million for his promise to back off on a dairy farm in Earlimart, Calif., north of Bakersfield.
"I am encouraged by the [Gov. Schwartzenegger] Administration's full-court press this past week to have a tentative agreement signed; however, I have long stated that the negotiations for the purchase of the development rights and my legislation were separate," Wilmer Amina Carter (D-Rialto), who wrote a bill to create a 2.5-mile buffer zone around the park, said in a statement. "Now that the immediate threat of the mega dairies next to the park is no longer imminent, I will hold off sending the bill to the Governor's desk, which will allow time for us to work together to reach a permanent solution for the entire park."
Former Kentucky slave Allen Allensworth (1842-1914), the U.S. military's highest-ranking African American, founded the town in 1908, but lack of water emptied most of its buildings in the 1920s. The 1,000-acre state park opened in 1976 and receives more than 10,000 visitors each year.
"This was just a first step in a move to protect the park," says Victor Carter, president of the nonprofit Friends of Allensworth. "I applaud them for what they did, but I still have hopes that the bill will be signed."
Meanwhile, in Idaho, Jerome County commissioners will soon vote on a proposal to build a massive feedlot downwind of Minidoka Internment Camp, a former Japanese-American internment camp that is now a National Park.
"The powerful odors created by thousands of animals, plus the dust, pests and potential airborne pathogens, will severely degrade the visitor experience at Minidoka and rob us of the opportunity to explore an important piece of our shared American heritage," wrote Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in an Aug. 16 editorial in the Idaho Statesman.
Because of the proposed concentrated animal feeding operation, in June the National Trust named Minidoka one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
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